According to CyberScoop, North Korea’s Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB) attempted to break into Clinton campaign systems by targeting a group of outside advisers working on East Asia policy for the campaign.

Using an attack method known as spearphishing, which attempts to wrangle users’ passwords, the hackers were able to infiltrate the email accounts of outside Clinton campaign advisers who work for an unnamed Washington, D.C. think tank.

The goal of the hacking campaign was to obtain policy papers regarding the campaign’s stances towards North Korea, CyberScoop reports.

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The hackers did not breach the Clinton campaign’s computers or email accounts, according to the internal report, which was obtained by CyberScoop. But cyber experts working for the campaign did find that hackers created a spoof email account using a hillaryclinton.com email address to contact the advisers who were hacked.

The timing of the report is likely to raise questions about the Clinton campaign’s internal security measures.

The report was circulated in Feb. 2016, about a month before Russian hackers compromised the Gmail account of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.

CyberScoop notes that RGB’s spearphishing method is similar to the one used to break into Podesta’s Gmail account. Podesta’s account was compromised on March 19, 2016, after he unwittingly shared his password with a hacker.

Despite the similarities in the spearphishing attempts, CyberScoop reports that there is no evidence that the two attacks were related. It is also still believed that the Russians, rather than the North Koreans, hacked Podesta’s account.